A Woman in Russian Dress

Art Institute of Chicago

A Woman in Russian Dress

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince

Date
1780
Medium
Red chalk on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince traveled throughout Russia from 1757 to 1762, returning to Paris with exotic images of life in the country. This masterful drawing of an archetypal Russian figure bears the stamp at lower left of the Galerie Cailleux in Paris, where the sheet was exhibited in 1978.

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